Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com () Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:03:39 -0500 (Why do they miss the large similarities but see the small differences?) This is a human condition that afflicts even programmers.

Re: Likely bug: SMOBs and mark functions [Was: Re: [bug #30480] VM: load looks for files in the wrong directory]

2011-02-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Luca! Happy 2.0 release day! :-) Luca Saiu posit...@gnu.org writes: (Hello Ludovic, Andy, and all :-)). On 02/15/2011 04:38 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I can’t reproduce the problem on x86_64-linux-gnu with a recent CVS snapshot of libgc. Which libgc do you use? 7.2.4, compiled from

Re: GNU Guile 2.0.0 released

2011-02-16 Thread Hans Aberg
On 16 Feb 2011, at 11:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.0.0, ... Here are the compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.0.tar.gz (5.4MB) It compiles on Mac OS X 10.6.6 with the system supplied compiler $ gcc --version

Problem building 2.0 On Ubuntu Maverick

2011-02-16 Thread Billy O'Connor
This error seems familiar to me somehow, but I can't place it or find anything in the ml archives. Has anyone else seen this? billyoc@t22:~/guile-2.0.0$ gcc --version gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5 ... make[3]: Entering directory `/home/billyoc/guile-2.0.0/libguile' GEN

Re: Problem building 2.0 On Ubuntu Maverick

2011-02-16 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Billy, On Wed 16 Feb 2011 19:06, Billy O'Connor bill...@gmail.com writes: GENguile-procedures.texi Throw without catch before boot: Error while printing exception: Key: Failed to print exception. Aborting. Can you run meta/gdb-uninstalled-guile -q --no-auto-compile ? That will

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Francis Southern
On 15 February 2011 20:43, Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com wrote: Also, while the Chicago Manual of Style recommends it, some other online grammar sites mention that it is American English style, but British English would not add a comma afterwards. My feeling is consistent with that.  I'm

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! While we’re at it... Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com writes: By simple we mean data types that are not primarily used as containers to hold other data -- i.e. pairs, lists, vectors and so on. This should be “to hold other data---i.e., pairs”, i.e., this should be an em dash with no

Re: Problem building 2.0 On Ubuntu Maverick

2011-02-16 Thread Billy O'Connor
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: Hi Billy, On Wed 16 Feb 2011 19:06, Billy O'Connor bill...@gmail.com writes: GENguile-procedures.texi Throw without catch before boot: Error while printing exception: Key: Failed to print exception. Aborting. Can you run

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Jerram
On 16 February 2011 00:52, Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com wrote: take a detour implies that there is an obstacle that is preventing the author from what would otherwise be the desirable route. No, not really. For example, the Michelin travel guides have been using the phrase worth a detour for

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com writes: Some of the discussion below was getting too far off-topic [...] Hi Mark, Your development of the argument below is interesting, and I think it could be an interesting discussion to have. In this email, though, I just wanted to mention a couple of points,

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi! While we’re at it... Mark Harig idirect...@aim.com writes: By simple we mean data types that are not primarily used as containers to hold other data -- i.e. pairs, lists, vectors and so on. This should be “to hold other data---i.e., pairs”,

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Mark Harig
Something that's long been a mystery to me is why it is that computer programmers, who spend their days learning and following the rules and idioms of various programming languages, do not want to learn and follow the rules and idioms of natural languages. Because computer

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Mark Harig
By simple we mean data types that are not primarily used as containers to hold other data -- i.e. pairs, lists, vectors and so on. This should be “to hold other data---i.e., pairs”, i.e., this should be an em dash with no surrounding spaces. Agreed, except that both instances of the Latin